For when you return: it is not at all the quality of the offerings but the volume of undistilled thought, half-baked or even raw ideas with zero possibility that keeps us from spending any moments of our short lives reading the stuff. Institutional publications have at least sorted out the somewhat coherent developments from the general muck.
Understood, and if you did have a quibble with the system and its apparent desire/need to defend sacred cows, what or where would it be?
Speaking of muck, how come I've never seen a program on Discovery, History or NG channels re those piles of bones you guys have stuck in the tundra up there? My God but that is some interesting stuff! But outside of the original discovery and book by Hibben(?), there has been little else to bring that anomaly, along with many others around the world, into the mainstream. You could become an instant star if you were able to get some teevee crews up there. Inquiring minds and all...